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May 6th, 2008 | help Need help?

Learn Japanese on Your Own Terms at JapanesePod101.com! A group of elementary school students want to make a time capsule to remember the end of the century. Our grammar point is -te oku, which is used to describe actions doing in preparation of a later action. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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Voice Actors: Miki, Yoshikai, Jun | Hosts: Peter, Naomi, Yuichi
Category: Beginner Lessons (S3) |
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12 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #187 - Time Capsule 1”

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, have you ever made (or opened) a time capsule?

avatar Sindyシンディー says:

JP101/Listeners! :wink:

I’m back after a long absence and sickness! I enjoy today’s lesson very much, this lesson remind me of Dragon Ball Z capsules. Keep up this great work! :mrgreen: S_R_C

avatar maxiewawa says:

Sindy! お帰り!私の事を覚えてる?

ゆいち先生おめでとう!最初の作文!

In the intro, we heard an example of 〜ておく。ちょっと分かりませんけど。

We heard:

Peter: It’s the debut. おめでとうございます。
Yuichi: じゃ、そう言う事で。。。して置きましょう。

What’s Yuichi先生 saying? My guess is that it’s “let’s leave it there” with the implication being “let’s leave it there, (because we have to get on with something else)”.

This was quite a difficult use of 〜て置く!

avatar Miki says:

>Sindyさん
Oh, this reminded you of Dragon Ball Z! That’s interesting :smile: Please look forward to next story :nihon:

avatar Yuichi says:

Maxiewawaさん

コメントありがとうございます :grin:

僕が言ったのは、

Yuichi: じゃ、そういうことにして置きましょう。

です :wink: And the meaning you guessed is correct!! すごいですね!!!

I agree with you, Maxiwawaさん. そういうことにして置きましょう is tricky expression :wink:

そういうことにして置きましょう Let’s leave it there, (because we need to move on.)

→そういうことにしましょう。Let’s leave it there.

You can use these expressions when you agree to do or decide to do something.
For example,

A:今年は東京に行きたいです。
B:じゃあ、そういうことにしましょう。

A:I want to go to Tokyo.
B:OK. It’s decide.

avatar のり says:

Mikiさんって、あのみきちゃん?JapanesePod101のトップアイドルの? :grin:
これからも時々コメントお願いします :dogeza:

avatar maxiewawa says:

ゆいち先生、ありがとう!覚えて置きました。 :mrgreen:

avatar Naomi says:

もし、皆さんが、明日パーティーをするなら、今日何をしておきますか。 :kokoro:
If you are having a party at your place tomorrow, what would you do for preparation today?

Please use “~te oku”

私は、部屋を掃除しておきます。
Watashi wa heya o souji shite okimasu.

avatar markystar says:

美樹ちゃん!久しぶりだな!
また会社に来てください!皆は美樹ちゃんと会いたいはず。  :dogeza:

avatar Sindyシンディー says:

Thank you very much Miki-san I look foward to the next lesson and like Marky-san said stop by JP101 and post more often, We miss you specially me!! :grin: :dogeza: S_R_C

avatar David Carlton says:

You probably know this already, but the ‘beginner’ link at the top of your pages seems to be broken - it only goes through lesson 170.

Anyways, I checked a couple of reference books, and both agree that the hiragana せ is derived from the kanji 世. Score one for Yuichi and Naomi…

avatar brianca says:

hey guys,

I love the lessons, but please be careful that the spoken english matches the spoken japanese. It’s very confusing in lessons like this when they don’t match, especially at the beginner level. I’ve come across this a few times now, and it always confuses me for a while until i can get somewhere i can read the lesson notes and see that something was left out.

thanks.

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